Story by Leejay Lockhart | Fort Campbell Public Affairs Office | 09.08.2017
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Friday morning people boarded two white buses on the final leg of a trip 50 years in the making. Many of the passengers were founding members of D Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, Rakkasans, 101st Airborne Division, created in 1967 during the Vietnam War....
Story by Lance Cpl. Harley Thomas | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 05.12.2015
On May 1, 1968, while suffering from shrapnel wounds incurred while relocating his unit under heavy artillery fire the previous day, Capt. Jay R. Vargas, the commanding officer of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 9th Amphibious Brigade, combined his company with two others and led his men in an attack on the fortified village of Dai Do in the Republic of Vietnam....
Story by Timothy Hale | U.S. Army Reserve Command | 02.05.2015
Several U.S. Army Reserve veterans, who served with distinction, were honored at a ceremony here, marking the 50th anniversary of Vietnam. Members of the 319th Transportation Company, based in Augusta, Georgia, recalled their tour of duty from 1968 to 1969. The unit still serves today, most recently in 2011 during Operation Iraqi Freedom....
